His first novel, "Moth Smoke, " was a Betty Trask Award winner, a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and a "New York Times "Notable Book of the Year. "Taut and accomplished."-" San Francisco Chronicle" "Slender, smart, and subversive."-"Entertainment Weekly" A "NEW YORK TIMES" NOTABLE BOOKMOHSIN HAMID grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, and attended Princeton and Harvard.
"The Reluctant Fundamentalist "is a riveting, brilliantly unsettling exploration of the shadowy, unexpected connections between the political and the personal. And Changez s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore.But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned and his relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter Changez is living an immigrant s dream of America. SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEAt a cafe table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. 'A first novel of remarkable wit, poise, profundity, and strangeness' Esquire From the Back Cover: 'One of the two or three best novels I have read this year' Nadine Gordimer The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an important book ( Evening Standard)Ī fantastic piece of work, superbly considered and controlled, with a lovely stillness and wisdom at its heart ( The Times) A multi-layered and thoroughly gripping book, which works as a poignant love story, a powerful dissection of how US imperialist machinations have turned so many people against the world's superpower - and as a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending ( Metro) a delicate meditation on the nature of perception and prejudice ( Daily Mail) remains taut until the final pages.an elegant and sharp indictment of the clouds of suspicion that now shroud our world ( Observer)Ī quietly told, cleverly constructed fable of infatuation and disenchantment with America, set on the treacherous faultlines of current east/west relations, and finely tuned to the ironies of mutual - but especially American - prejudice and misrepresentation.increasingly tense.genuinely provocative.intelligent, highly engaging ( Guardian)Įlegant, provocative.
Prods the intellect, quickens the pulse and captures the imagination ( Sunday Times)
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